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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1917. 



The Obituary Record. 



A VETERAN RUBBER IMPORTER. 



HEXRY A. GOULD, head of the Gould Commercial Co., 

 Inc., 12 Bridge street. New York City, dealer in crude 

 rubber and tires, and without doubt the dean of Ameri- 

 can crude rubber men, died December 25 in the Overlook Hos- 

 pital, aged 73. He was a resident of Chatham, New Jersey. 



Mr. Gould was born and lived many years in Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts, attending the public schools there and receiving his 

 mercantile education in the offices of P. & J. P. Hawes & Co., 

 an East India house with which he remained for four years. At 

 the age of 21 he became a partner in the East India brokerage 

 firm of Robert Williams & Sons, Boston, established in 1834 

 and the leading brokers in East India products, especially rub- 

 ber and gutta percha, having prominent connections in New 

 York. Five years later he retired from the firm and spent a 

 year traveling in the West, where he represented large financial 

 interests in Duluth and Minnesota prior to the panic of 1873. 



Deciding to remain in the Eastern financial centers, Mr. Gould 

 opened an office in Boston on his own account for dealing in 

 rubber, with Earle Brothers as a New York connection. Later 

 the Gould Commercial Co. was organized in New York to im- 

 port aniline dyestuffs and refine crude camphor, three of the 

 five American camphor refineries being acquired by the com- 

 pany. 



In 1897 the Boston business, conducted under" the name of 

 Henry A. Gould, and the New York business of the Gould Com- 

 mercial Co. were consolidated as the Henry A. Gould Co., with 

 headquarters in New Y'ork and a branch in Boston. It was 

 decided to concentrate upon crude rubber, and branches were 

 therefore opened in Trenton. New Jersey, Para and Manaos, 

 Brazil, and later in London, England. Representatives were lo- 

 cated in Mexico, Central and South America, and Africa, as a 

 result of which many new grades were introduced to .\merican 

 trade, notably Pontianak. 



The Henfy A. Gould Co. was incorporated in New Jersey in 

 1902, and again in New York in 1905. The Gould Commercial 

 Co., Inc., to which he was devoting himself at the time of his 

 death, was a Delaware company incorporated in 1914. During 

 Mr. Gould's varied career in many branches of the rubber in- 

 dustry, including import, export and manufacture, many young 

 men have learned the business under the guidance of his broad 

 experience, no less than ten of them having since Ijecome lead- 

 ing rubber merchants. 



In 1902 Mr. Gould married Miss Edna F. Ellis, of Philadel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania, and it is said to have been largely through 

 her influence that he had previously become treasurer and active 

 superintendent of the New York Rescue Band, which main- 

 tained clubrooms, employment bureau, etc., on Fourteenth street, 

 New Y'ork City. 



A RUBBER COMPANY FOUNDER. 



In the recent death of Henry Binns, Passaic, New Jersey, has 

 lost the father of many important business enterprises and an 

 inventor of note. Mr. Binns was an iron molder by trade, and 

 although born in England and the inventor of a device for 

 planing armor plate used in the British navy, also invented the 

 first steam hammer used by the Krupps of Germany in building 

 their 100-ton guns. In 1869 he came to America and was one 

 of the founders of the Manhattan Rubber Co., Passaic, New 

 Jersey, the Hobart Trust Co., the New Jersey Engineering & 

 Supply Co. and the Guarantee Mortgage & Title Insurance Co. 



Mr. Binns is survived by his wife, six children and nineteen 

 grandchildren. 



A NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLUB PRESIDENT. 



John Henry Flint, president of the Tyer Rubber Co., An- 

 dover, Massachusetts, died at his home in that town November 

 29, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. Mr. Flint was born in 

 Andovcr, and after a public .school education entered the mar- 

 ket business, at the same time developing his real estate inter- 

 ests. He early be- 

 came interested in 

 the Tyer Rubber 

 Co., and was made 

 a director in the 

 company in 1876. 

 From 1882 to 1913 

 he occupied the po- 

 sition of treasurer, 

 and in the latter 

 year was elected 

 president of the 

 company, which of- 

 fice he held up to 

 the time of his 

 death. He was a 

 director of the Rub- 

 ber Manufacturers' 

 Mutual Insurance 

 Co., and served for 

 two years as presi- 

 dent of the New 

 England Rubber 

 Club. 



Besides his in- 

 terest in the rubber business, he was intimately connected with 

 business and town affairs in Andover. For 34 years he was 

 connected with the Andover Savings Bank, a part of that time 

 as president, and was also a director in the Andover National 

 Bank and a director in the Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance 

 Co. He served the town of Andover as selectman, assessor, 

 town clerk, treasurer, chairman of the Water Commission, 

 chairman of the Board of Public Works, and chief of the Fire 

 Department. He was a member of Masonic and Odd Fellows 

 Organizations, and of the Andover Club. In 1873 he married 

 Miss Frances A. Tyer, who survives him, as do also two mar- 

 ried daughters. 



Mr. Flint was noted for his keen judgment in business mat- 

 ters. He was straightforward, shrewd, possessed of a kindly 

 humor, and deserved and possessed a host of friends. 



PIONEER RECLAIMER. 



George Agnew, founder of the Raymond Rubber Co., Titus- 

 ville. New Jersey, died early last month at Mercer Hospital, 

 Trenton, New Jersey, aged 80 years. The Raymond company, 

 which formerly operated under several other names, is a rubber 

 reclaiming concern. After a long and successful career in the 

 reclaiming business, Mr. Agnew retired from active work about 

 eight or ten years ago, and three of his sons, Raymond H., 

 Robert P. and John B. Agnew, now carry on the business. 



J. H. Flint. 



MANY YEARS MANAGER OF A RUBBER COMPANY. 



In the death of Frank DeWitt Hotchkiss, December 23, after 

 long suffering with liver trouble, Fairfield, Connecticut, loses 

 one of its most prominent citizens. For 28 j'ears he had been 

 manager of the Fairfield Rubber Co., now the Du Pont Fabri- 

 koid Co. Indeed he had been identified with the rubber industry 



